I don't know if anyone else saw this piece of s**te, but god was it awful! The only thing I found related to BW 1 was the people who went to Burkittsville in the movie. Aside from that, the rest of it was just crap. Made no sense at all and the ending just plain sucked. I was hoping the end would have some kind of redeeming twist, but alas, there was none. Did anyone else dislike this tripe as much as me? Or did I miss something profound?
It really sucked.
Whether you loved it or hated it, the style of the original Blair Witch Project pretty much made a good sequel impossible. Sadly, the lure of milking the cash cow further was too great.
I have yet to see the movie, but the director makes his distaste with the final product quite clear on his commentary. Yet again this is a case where an inventive thriller (or one that had pretensions of being one) was heavily re-edited by the studio until it was practically a different movie altogether. Evidently there are some gore inserts as well, and the stuff in the mental asylum was tacked on as well.
Evidently the producers of the movie (who were the creators of the first) had nothing to do with the making of the movie, but tried to save it/ruin it (depending on who you talk to). The currently languishing in development Blair Witch 3 is a planned return to the fictional mythos of the first film. Frankly I'd like a movie about the child killer....
I watched this one with my wife because she saw the first one with me and we both really liked it. She usually hates horror movies, so I was kind of psyched and surprised that she liked the first one. Anyway, about 45 minutes or maybe more into the second one, it was pretty clear that neither one of us was enjoying it. When they did the offensive-by-nearly-any-standard miscarriage dream sequence, she got up and went shopping. I almost joined her but stuck it out. In retrospect, I should have joined her.
Well, I think there was the possibility of a good BLAIR WITCH sequel, as long it wasn't done in remotely the same style. A straight movie using their mythos may have been interesting.
BLAIR WITCH 2 wasn't that movie. It's like the people making it thought that what made the first BLAIR WITCH so successful was actors arguing with each other for an hour and a half.
Anybody remember the lame "Secret of Esrever" stuff for the video release? Basically a featurette that had letters in the bottom corner. When you read those letters playing the featurette backwards they would spell out words that were clues to secret images hidden in the movie. Yup, the spirit of William Castle lives on.
It sucked, granted, but I thought it had some cool ideas. Some of the stuff with them in that old factory, hallucinating, was nifty, and might have been really cool in a better movie.
When I saw it all i could think about was that it reminded me of an after school special. The dangers of drinking and drugs. I swear when I saw the scene where they were drinking around the fire thats all i could think about. To make it worse my friend told me that he was never going to take a drink again....
The only good thing I got out of this "movie" was that afterwards when we were walking through the parking lot my friend popped the trunk of his car with hs remote. It scared a few people.
I kind of liked it, although I do think they should have left the police station scenes at the end like they originally planned and it could have used a little polishing.
I remember there being ghostly, ghastly dogs that seemed quite effective. The dialog was quite tedious and suddenly finding out that everything the characters thought was happening actually was not (instead terrible things were done) is sort of a cop-out. Reminds me of films where they try to suddenly spring a "look who the killer is" on you as a surprise.
Well, it would have been a surprise if that character had been introduced at all earlier. Sheesh.
Watched "Amelie" the other night and it still impresses me with "surprises" that, in hindsight, make perfect sense. How the gnome (gnomes rock!) was traveling and who the mysterious photo booth man were especially.
I did in fact see this movie, and I too was disapointed. It lacked the uniqueness of the original. I really don't see much as a sequel coming out.
The movie was horrible, I didn't even realize the ending already came up, very slow paced, I didn't feel any suspense from the movie. All I remember now from the movie is the vampire chick. I'm not much of a big fan of the first one though but I still appreciate that the first on was a unique film.